APHuG: Ch. 8 Political Geography

What is an anocracy?

• A country that is not fully democratic or fully autocratic, but rather displays a mix of the two types.

• A country that is run according to the interests of the ruler rather than the people.

• A country in which citizens elect leaders and can run for office.

• An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government that has control over its internal and foreign affairs.

What is an autocracy?

• A country in which citizens elect leaders and can run for office.

• A country that is not fully democratic or fully autocratic, but rather displays a mix of the two types.

• A country that is run according to the interests of the ruler rather than the people.

• An internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government officials.

What is colonialism?

• Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states.

• An attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory.

• An internal organization of a state that allocates most powers to units of local government.

• An internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government officials.

What is a democracy?

• A country that is run according to the interests of the ruler rather than the people.

• An internal organization of a state that allocates most powers to units of local government.

• Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states.

• A country in which citizens elect leaders and can run for office.

What is a federal state?

• An internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government officials.

• A state that contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities.

• An internal organization of a state that allocates most powers to units of local government.

• A country in which citizens elect leaders and can run for office.

What is a frontier?

• A zone separating two states in which neither state exercises political control.

• A state that contains more than one ethnicity.

• An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government that has control over its internal and foreign affairs.

• A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality.

What is gerrymandering?

• Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states.

• The process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power.

• An internal organization of a state that allocates most powers to units of local government.

• An attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory.

What is a multiethnic state?

• A state that contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities.

• A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality.

• An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government that has control over its internal and foreign affairs.

• A state that contains more than one ethnicity.

What is a multinational state?

• A state that contains more than one ethnicity.

• A state that contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities.

• A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality.

• An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government that has control over its internal and foreign affairs.

What is a nation-state?

• A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality.

• A state that contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities.

• A state that contains more than one ethnicity.

• An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government that has control over its internal and foreign affairs.